Oceans of Wisdom

this is like me with my ABC set

Or do you mean lending the memes themselves

Price oracles

Yup. This is why I believe him when he says he feels great

I don't particularly care as a collector, but as an artist I wouldn't recommend because a lot of collectors do care and get annoyed. In particular, if the artist does not mention it upfront. If they say upfront they are going to do it, then nobody can complain. Also if they make it CC0, even better and nobody can complain. The big issue here is not good or bad, but expectations management. The general expectation of 1/1 NFT collectors is that this won't happen so some get upset So tl;dr I think the meta advice is "be transparent about your plans and then all options are fine"

but i have made some small lifestyle changes (small, I do not want to overstate my healthy lifestyle) that are let's say "inspired" by him

tl;dr -> I suspect he is more right than wrong even though I do not do most of the stuff that he does

have we ever had any discussion whatsoever on if they are happy or not in their personal life

of the 200+ meme artists

or let's make it more specific

even if some of them are

nobody is going around worried that "people who eat too much packaged food are unhappy"

e.g. drink too much

many people who do things that normal people do are unhappy!

many people are unhappy!

I mean he seems happy enough, he says he is happy but even if he is unhappy, what possible difference does it make

and so then they invent theories like "Bryan is unhappy"

in some tiny but probably meaningful way

nobody wants to hear that binge watching netflix at 1am on Friday with a glass of wine is hurting their health

so I think there is a bit of self-protection, cognitive dissonance going on

he recommends the fairly well established stuff

he does not recommend the n=1 stuff

and if you see what he recommends normal people do

I mean, there is no doubt he is actually right on the merits of 90%+ of what he is recommending

to jog

and f-ck, maybe I should not be having wine at 11pm or pizza for the 5th time this month. maybe I should have eaten my berry bowl, gone to bed on time and woken up to job

I think the reaction is more people potentially worried that "he may be right"

(I am not particularly biohacked in any way)

judging from myself

Now, to my secret theory about why people are upset?

don't die is a great meme

he is good memetically

because it is unusual

gets the free media cycle

the n=1 stuff is the stuff that gets the attention

but if he did not do those things, you would have never heard of him

now, I know people will say "it is not that, it is the plasma transfers or whatever that I am upset about"

and everyone gets very upset at Bryan :)

so right now the messaging is 99.999999% "things that are bad for you +/-" and Bryan out there saying "hey, eat your veggies and go to bed on time"

and nobody has every complained that "McDonalds or Bacardi need to do a study to prove that a cheeseburger and rum and coke will make you healthier and happier when eat / drink them"

to convince us to eat food that is between neutral and bad for us

There are hundreds of billions of dollars a year of marketing

I do not understand why people are upset (well I have a theory I will share in a second)

I think he is net good for the world

so it is something like: - conventionally good health advice (90%) - n=1 experiments (10%) - wrapped in a very memeable (which is why people are talking about him) view on tech/longevity accelerationism. "don't die" is better meme than explaining that ASI might accelerate development of treatment for liver cancer in 2033

this is controversial but notably Ray Kurzweil who has been right about everything involving computers for the last 40 years also believes it

so "don't die" right now is a very high expected value bet

now this is layered with a theory that is basically ASI will drive longevity and we might reach some type of escape velocity in the 2030s

this is the substance of what he is doing

whereas the 500 millionth person eating junk food and killing themselves for sure, we know what the outcome is, we have done the studies. we do not need any more n=1 studies of "if you drink too much, don't exercise and eat candy bars" we are 100% sure what will happen